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Originally Posted by RainMaker
The percent is for earmarks, not wasteful spending.
I'm not arguing wasteful spending or whether the politicians read the bill or not. I'm just saying that most Americans don't give a shit about it right now. Especially when the cries come from the party that had tons of wasteful spending and earmarks this decade. It's tough to act fiscally conservative when you just dumped trillions into a pointless war in Iraq that killed thousands of Americans.
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I've seen this argument posted elsewhere. Without getting into the merits, who IS able to complain about wasteful spending and earmarks? Not Republicans, because they didn't act fiscally responsible before. Not Democrats, because they aren't acting fiscally responsible now. So in your view, who gets to complain about this stuff?